[DP] support torchrun external launcher with Data Parallelism

.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml

@@ -165,10 +165,18 @@ steps:
   - tests/v1/test_hybrid_lb_dp.py
   - tests/v1/engine/test_engine_core_client.py
   commands:
-  # test with tp=2 and external_dp=2
+  # test with torchrun tp=2 and external_dp=2
   - torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example.py
-  # test with tp=2 and pp=2
+  # test with torchrun tp=2 and pp=2
   - PP_SIZE=2 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example.py
+  # test with torchrun tp=4 and dp=1
+  - TP_SIZE=4 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  # test with torchrun tp=2, pp=2 and dp=1
+  - PP_SIZE=2 TP_SIZE=2 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  # test with torchrun tp=1 and dp=4 with ep
+  - DP_SIZE=4 ENABLE_EP=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
+  # test with torchrun tp=2 and dp=2 with ep
+  - TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 ENABLE_EP=1 torchrun --nproc-per-node=4 distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py
   # test with internal dp
   - python3 ../examples/offline_inference/data_parallel.py --enforce-eager
   - TP_SIZE=2 DP_SIZE=2 pytest -v -s v1/test_async_llm_dp.py

examples/offline_inference/torchrun_dp_example.py

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""
+experimental support for data-parallel inference with torchrun
+Note the data load balancing and distribution is done out of the vllm engine,
+no internal lb supported in external_launcher mode.
+"""
+
+from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
+
+# Create prompts, the same across all ranks
+prompts = [
+    "Hello, my name is",
+    "The president of the United States is",
+    "The capital of France is",
+    "The future of AI is",
+] * 50
+
+# Create sampling parameters, the same across all ranks
+sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)
+
+# Use `distributed_executor_backend="external_launcher"` so that
+# this llm engine/instance only creates one worker.
+# it is important to set an explicit seed to make sure that
+# all ranks have the same random seed, so that sampling can be
+# deterministic across ranks.
+llm = LLM(
+    model="microsoft/Phi-mini-MoE-instruct",
+    tensor_parallel_size=1,
+    data_parallel_size=2,
+    pipeline_parallel_size=1,
+    enable_expert_parallel=False,
+    distributed_executor_backend="external_launcher",
+    max_model_len=4096,
+    gpu_memory_utilization=0.6,
+    seed=1,
+)
+
+dp_rank = llm.llm_engine.vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_rank
+dp_size = llm.llm_engine.vllm_config.parallel_config.data_parallel_size
+
+prompts = [
+    f"{idx}.{prompt}" for idx, prompt in enumerate(prompts) if idx % dp_size == dp_rank
+]
+
+outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
+
+
+# all ranks will have the same outputs
+print("-" * 50)
+for output in outputs:
+    prompt = output.prompt
+    generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
+    print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}\nGenerated text: {generated_text!r}\n")
+    print("-" * 50)
+"""
+Further tips:
+
+1. to communicate control messages across all ranks, use the cpu group,
+a PyTorch ProcessGroup with GLOO backend.
+
+```python
+from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import get_world_group
+cpu_group = get_world_group().cpu_group
+torch_rank = dist.get_rank(group=cpu_group)
+if torch_rank == 0:
+    # do something for rank 0, e.g. saving the results to disk.
+```
+
+2. to communicate data across all ranks, use the model's device group,
+a PyTorch ProcessGroup with NCCL backend.
+```python
+from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import get_world_group
+device_group = get_world_group().device_group
+```
+
+3. to access the model directly in every rank, use the following code:
+```python
+llm.llm_engine.model_executor.driver_worker.worker.model_runner.model
+```
+"""

tests/distributed/test_torchrun_example_moe.py

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+# unit test for `examples/offline_inference/torchrun_example.py`
+import os
+import random
+
+import torch.distributed as dist
+
+from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
+from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import get_tp_group, get_world_group
+
+dist.init_process_group(backend="gloo")
+
+# Create prompts
+prompts = [
+    "Hello, my name is",
+    "The president of the United States is",
+    "The capital of France is",
+    "The future of AI is",
+] * 10
+dp_size = int(os.getenv("DP_SIZE", "1"))
+dp_rank = int(os.getenv("DP_RANK", "0"))
+
+if dp_size > 1:
+    # distribute the prompts across the data parallel ranks
+    prompts = [
+        prompt for idx, prompt in enumerate(prompts)
+        if idx % dp_size == dp_rank
+    ]
+
+sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)
+
+# set different `gpu_memory_utilization` and `swap_space` for different ranks,
+# to test if all ranks agree on the same kv cache configuration.
+llm = LLM(model="microsoft/Phi-mini-MoE-instruct",
+          tensor_parallel_size=int(os.getenv("TP_SIZE", "1")),
+          pipeline_parallel_size=int(os.getenv("PP_SIZE", "1")),
+          enable_expert_parallel=int(os.getenv("ENABLE_EP", "0")) == 1,
+          distributed_executor_backend="external_launcher",
+          gpu_memory_utilization=random.uniform(0.7, 0.9),
+          swap_space=random.randint(1, 4),
+          seed=0)
+
+outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
+
+group = get_world_group() if dp_size == 1 else get_tp_group()
+cpu_group = group.cpu_group
+group_rank = dist.get_rank(group=cpu_group)
+
+
+def test_consistent_across_ranks(obj):
+    if group_rank == 0:
+        dist.broadcast_object_list([obj], src=group.ranks[0], group=cpu_group)
+    else:
+        container = [None]
+        dist.broadcast_object_list(container,
+                                   src=group.ranks[0],
+                                   group=cpu_group)
+        assert container[0] == obj
+
+
+test_consistent_across_ranks(
+    llm.llm_engine.vllm_config.cache_config.num_cpu_blocks)
+test_consistent_across_ranks(
+    llm.llm_engine.vllm_config.cache_config.num_gpu_blocks)
+
+# make sure we can access the model parameters from the calling process
+# of the `LLM` instance.
+params = list(llm.llm_engine.model_executor.driver_worker.worker.model_runner.
+              model.parameters())
+test_consistent_across_ranks(len(params))
+
+# all ranks should have the same outputs
+for output in outputs:
+    prompt = output.prompt
+    generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
+    test_consistent_across_ranks(prompt)
+    test_consistent_across_ranks(generated_text)
+    print(f"Rank {group_rank}, Prompt: {prompt!r}, "
+          f"Generated text: {generated_text!r}")

vllm/config/parallel.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
 
 import hashlib
+import os
 from dataclasses import field
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Literal, Optional, Union
 
@@ -351,13 +352,24 @@ def __post_init__(self) -> None:
         self.world_size = self.pipeline_parallel_size * \
             self.tensor_parallel_size
 
+        if self.distributed_executor_backend == "external_launcher":
+            logger.info("Using external launcher for distributed inference.")
+            self.world_size *= self.data_parallel_size
+
         if self.data_parallel_size_local > self.data_parallel_size:
             raise ValueError(
                 f"data_parallel_size_local ({self.data_parallel_size_local}) "
                 f"must be <= data_parallel_size ({self.data_parallel_size})")
 
         if self.data_parallel_size > 1 or self.data_parallel_size_local == 0:
             # Data parallel was specified in the engine args.
+            if self.distributed_executor_backend == "external_launcher":
+                # For external launcher,
+                # we need to set the data parallel rank automatically
+                self.data_parallel_rank = int(os.environ["RANK"]) \
+                    // (self.world_size // self.data_parallel_size)
+                logger.info("Set data_parallel_rank to %d automatically.",
+                            self.data_parallel_rank)
             if not self._data_parallel_master_port_list:
                 self._data_parallel_master_port_list = get_open_ports_list(5)
             self.data_parallel_master_port = \
@@ -380,7 +392,6 @@ def __post_init__(self) -> None:
                                  "be set when data_parallel_size > 1")
 
         if self.distributed_executor_backend == "external_launcher":
-            import os
             os.environ["VLLM_ENABLE_V1_MULTIPROCESSING"] = "0"
             logger.info("Disabling V1 multiprocessing for external launcher.")
 

vllm/distributed/parallel_state.py

@@ -1032,7 +1032,9 @@ def init_distributed_environment(world_size: int = -1,
         distributed_init_method, backend)
     from vllm.config import get_current_vllm_config
     config = get_current_vllm_config()
-    if config is not None and config.parallel_config.data_parallel_size > 1:
+    if config is not None and config.parallel_config.data_parallel_size > 1 \
+        and config.parallel_config.distributed_executor_backend \
+        != "external_launcher":
         parallel_config = config.parallel_config
         # adjust to take into account data parallelism
         # offset the rank by the data parallel rank

vllm/v1/engine/llm_engine.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import vllm.envs as envs
 from vllm.config import ParallelConfig, VllmConfig
 from vllm.distributed import stateless_destroy_torch_distributed_process_group
+from vllm.distributed.parallel_state import get_dp_group
 from vllm.engine.arg_utils import EngineArgs
 from vllm.inputs import PromptType
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
@@ -77,10 +78,15 @@ def __init__(
         if self.log_stats:
             self.stat_logger = PrometheusStatLogger(vllm_config)
 
+        executor_backend = (
+            self.vllm_config.parallel_config.distributed_executor_backend)
+        parallel_config = vllm_config.parallel_config
+        self.external_launcher_dp = (parallel_config.data_parallel_size > 1 and
+                                     executor_backend == "external_launcher")
         # important: init dp group before init the engine_core
         # In the decoupled engine case this is handled in EngineCoreProc.
-        parallel_config = vllm_config.parallel_config
-        if not multiprocess_mode and parallel_config.data_parallel_size > 1:
+        if not multiprocess_mode and parallel_config.data_parallel_size > 1 \
+            and not self.external_launcher_dp:
             self.dp_group = parallel_config.stateless_init_dp_group()
         else:
             self.dp_group = None
@@ -120,6 +126,11 @@ def __init__(
             # for v0 compatibility
             self.model_executor = self.engine_core.engine_core.model_executor  # type: ignore
 
+        if self.external_launcher_dp:
+            # If we use DP in external launcher mode, we reuse the
+            # existing DP group used for data communication.
+            self.dp_group = get_dp_group().cpu_group
+
         # Don't keep the dummy data in memory
         self.reset_mm_cache()
 
@@ -331,5 +342,6 @@ def apply_model(self, func: Callable[[nn.Module], _R]) -> list[_R]:
         return self.collective_rpc("apply_model", args=(func, ))
 
     def __del__(self):
-        if dp_group := getattr(self, "dp_group", None):
+        if dp_group := getattr(self, "dp_group",
+                               None) and not self.external_launcher_dp:
             stateless_destroy_torch_distributed_process_group(dp_group)